Financial Times:
Sources: China bars Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as it reviews whether Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus violates FDI rules  —  Deal scrutiny deepens over official fears of strategic tech flowing overseas  —  China has restricted two co-founders of Manus …

Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
The Trump administration settles the 2022 Murthy v. Missouri case, preventing the Surgeon General, CDC, and CISA from pressuring social media to suppress speech  —  The Trump administration has agreed to a settlement that will bar three federal agencies from pressuring social media companies …

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Filing: Meta offers top executives stock options for the first time since its 2012 IPO to retain talent, if it hits stock-price milestones in the coming years  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is offering top executives stock options for the first time since its 2012 IPO — an effort to retain …

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg:
Thailand-based Amity, which provides generative AI tools to businesses like retail and telecom, raised $100M in a Series D, as it plans for an IPO in 2027  —  Thailand's Amity, which builds and integrates generative AI technology for businesses, raised $100 million as it gears …

Neal Stephenson / Graphomane:
Neal Stephenson says he no longer believes head-mounted displays are the future, citing public discomfort with the devices and a general distrust of the users  —  Reflections on the latest and greatest Death of the Metaverse  —  It feels incumbent upon me to write something about last week's big news …